Wisconsin has lost over 70% of its dairy farms since 2000, hitting a record low of 5,222 herds in August 2024. Low milk prices, rising costs, farmer retirements, and labor shortages contribute to the ...

Dairy farms rely heavily on immigrant and undocumented labor, and this year’s push for ICE raids has the Wisconsin Farmer’s ...

Amid stepped-up immigration enforcement, Wisconsin’s dairy industry is confronting a familiar tension: farms rely heavily on ...

A small but growing number of Wisconsin farmers are embracing robotic milking. Difficulties in maintaining a workforce, ongoing market swings and uncertainties over an updated Farm Bill are leading a ...

It's an up-close-and-personal portrait of a Holstein enjoying life in 2023 at Red Brae Dairy. Working the dairy breakfast in 2023 at Zweig's Maple Acres farm are, from left, Dale Pieper, Anthony ...

During the hearing, Gilbert Farms co-owner Marge Gilbert asked that the DNR approve the permit. She said the Gilbert family has been farming in Door County for almost 150 years. She said farming has ...

Across the country, edible gifts are becoming a favorite way to share meaning and memory. In Wisconsin, cheesemakers embrace ...

On a below-freezing morning in March 2013, Israel Lepe Quezada was crushed to death while working on a dairy farm in northeast Wisconsin. The farm’s owner had found Lepe pinned between the engine ...

As Wisconsin's Senate race tightens, Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin is throwing a Hail Mary pass to dairy farmers in hopes of extending her single-point lead over Republican challenger Eric Hovde.

Let’s go to Madison, Wisconsin where the 2025 World Dairy Expo Dairy Producers of the Year are being recognized.

Video shows the workers beating and dragging the cows. An undercover investigation by the animal rights group Mercy for Animals shows alleged animal abuse by a dairy farm in Wisconsin. Mercy for ...